Singapore - Singapore stepped up measures to guard against the swine flu outbread and elevated the flu alert level from green to yellow after the World Health Organization decided to raise pandemic alert levels from phase 3 to 4.
"This is to brace ourselves to handle situations where there may be isolated imported cases but no sustained local transmission," the Ministry of Health said in statement late Tuesday night.
So far there are no human cases of swine flu in Singapore.
Singapore - Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), one of the world's leading container shippers, said Monday its cargo volume for the four weeks to April 3 slumped 22 per cent compared to the same period a year ago due to a decline in demand. From March 7-April 3, NOL moved 155,400 40-foot equivalent units (FEU), down from
198,300 FEU in the same period a year earlier, the company said in a statement.
Average revenue per FEU fell 20 per cent to 2,347 US dollars.
Singapore - A Singapore court Monday sentenced a man who masqueraded as an informant of al-Qaeda and sent bomb hoax and terrorist-related threats to five years in jail, media reports said. Josemaria Miguel Ye Yong Qiang, 40, sent a series of e-mails threatening bomb and rocket attacks on American and European airlines, the White House, Pentagon and US embassies between September 6 and 27 last year, the online edition of Straits Times newspaper reported.
Singapore - In light of the outbreak of swine flu cases in Mexiko and the United States since Monday all passengers arriving at Singapore's main Changi airport are being screened for flu symptoms.
Thermal scanners at the arrival halls measure the temperature of passengers just before they undergo immigration checks, the Ministry of Health and the Civil Aviation Authority said in a joint statement.
Passengers with higher-than-normal temperature would undergo a more thorough medical assessment.
Singapore - A Singapore court Friday sentenced a serial molester who sexually assaulted girls as young as nine to 32 years in jail, media reports said.
Huang Shiyou, 22, was also ordered to be caned the maximum of 24 strokes after he pleaded guilty to five charges of aggravated molestation, sexual assault and attempted rape, the online edition of Straits Times newspaper reported.
Singapore - Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor, one of the largest chipmakers worldwide, on Friday posted a net loss of 98.8 million US dollars for the first quarter of
2009, compared to a profit of 2.4 million US dollars in the same period a year ago.
Revenue for the first three months of 2009 reached 243.9 million US dollars, down 37.2 per cent from a year earlier, the company said in a statement.
Singapore - Singapore stepped up measures to guard against the swine flu outbread and elevated the flu alert level from green to yellow after the World Health Organization decided to raise pandemic alert levels from phase 3 to 4.
Singapore - Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), one of the world's leading container shippers, said Monday its cargo volume for the four weeks to April 3 slumped 22 per cent compared to the same period a year ago due to a decline in demand. From March 7-April 3, NOL moved 155,400 40-foot equivalent units (FEU), down from 
Singapore - A Singapore court Monday sentenced a man who masqueraded as an informant of al-Qaeda and sent bomb hoax and terrorist-related threats to five years in jail, media reports said. Josemaria Miguel Ye Yong Qiang, 40, sent a series of e-mails threatening bomb and rocket attacks on American and European airlines, the White House, Pentagon and US embassies between September 6 and 27 last year, the online edition of Straits Times newspaper reported.
Singapore - In light of the outbreak of swine flu cases in Mexiko and the United States since Monday all passengers arriving at Singapore's main Changi airport are being screened for flu symptoms.
Singapore - A Singapore court Friday sentenced a serial molester who sexually assaulted girls as young as nine to 32 years in jail, media reports said.
Singapore - Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor, one of the largest chipmakers worldwide, on Friday posted a net loss of 98.8 million US dollars for the first quarter of 
